Homegrown Music Festival

The Homegrown Music Festival is an annual community celebration of the original and diverse music of Duluth, Minn. and its surrounding communities. What started in 1999 with five acts has matured in its 20th year to an eight-day community-wide local music, arts and cultural extravaganza.

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Heaven’s Gate Away Team

Heaven’s Gate Away Team

The space-gospel group Heaven’s Gate Away Team likes to keep the visual components of its performances constantly evolving. At Homegrown 2016, bassist Rick McLean, guitarist Jacob Swanson and drummer Ian Vincent played on spaced-out psychedelic instruments and concealed themselves in purple veils. Because that’s what bands named after a defunct UFO religious millenarian cult that used Star Trek nomenclature ought to do, along with preparing listeners for “the Earth’s recycling through amplification and discorporation.”